Password exposure via enabled login autocomplete
Published Sep 16, 2024 · Updated Sep 16, 2024
Protection mechanism failure in Mattermost Mobile Apps 2.18.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to expose passwords. The login password field leaves autocomplete enabled when masking is turned off, permitting SwiftKey to retain special-character passwords in its dictionary. Exposure requires SwiftKey as the default keyboard, visible-password mode, and user interaction; the consequence is limited to locally retained credentials.
Summary
What happened
Protection mechanism failure in Mattermost Mobile Apps 2.18.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to expose passwords. The login password field leaves autocomplete enabled when masking is turned off, permitting SwiftKey to retain special-character passwords in its dictionary. Exposure requires SwiftKey as the default keyboard, visible-password mode, and user interaction; the consequence is limited to locally retained credentials.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-45833
- Published
- Sep 16, 2024
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Vendor
- Mattermost
- Product
- Mattermost
- Classifications
- CWE-693, T1056
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 16, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 16, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=2.18.0
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